couldn’t get on. Just going out, when [James] Morris brought up a letter for me, which the servant had left lying on a table, on the floor below. From Hannah; and I read it as I walked down-town, in the cold, bright, windy afternoon. It affected me intensely, as her letters always do — I can’t put down how much. What in God’s name have am I, to be worthy of such a love and such a woman? Here are news-items. Edwin [Gunn] and Charley [Gunn] visiting, to and fro, as usual, the former “looks older” though he “looks well.” Charley “growing very religious,” takes his mother [Naomi Gunn] to church and attends young men’s prayer-meetings. He has insured his life for £500, will probably be married at the end of the summer. My father [Samuel Gunn] is “very unwell indeed, is really much worse than usual x x Mary Bennett saw in him a great change for the worse x x it is sad to hear him cough.” Sad indeed, — I shall never see him again. My mother – God bless her! will send Hannah her photograph. Mary Bennett has found an admirer in one of her cousin Heritages. Little [William] Gazey happy and prosperous with dear, good Charlotte [Bennett Gazey]. With the letter’s contents stirring in my heart, I went down town, to Post Office &c. In the